SVK's Components

SVK, once installed, has a number of different
pieces. The following is a quick overview of what you get.
Don't be alarmed if the brief descriptions leave you scratching
your head—there are plenty more pages
in this book devoted to alleviating that confusion.

svk

The command-line client program.

svnadmin

A tool for creating, tweaking or repairing a Subversion
repository—this is technically part of subversion,
however svk need it to be installed in order to create
depots..

Assuming you have SVK installed correctly, you should
be ready to start. The next two chapters will walk you through
the use of svk, SVK's command-line client
program.